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The Spending Review experiment begins

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Newsnight's Economic editor Paul Mason reports on the plan unveiled in the government's Spending Review, the changes it will mean on the ground and the likelihood that, as the government hopes, the theory that if you cut the state, the private sector will expand is correct.

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